FancyZoom

Cabel Sasser is a software developer and one of the founders of Panic Software, the folks that make Transmit along with some other nice web development tools. Transmit is a great FTP utility for the Mac and a tool that I find myself using just about everyday. Cabel also does some other coding and his weblog, cabel.name is a good read for folks who like to keep up with smart independent software developers. (If you are interested in software design, his talk from C4 is very informative and entertaining...) This morning, David Warlick pointed to a nice little piece of Javascript that Cabel wrote that produces a nice visual effect when viewing images that have been posted to your web site. He calls it FancyZoom. Basically when a thumbnail link is clicked a larger version of the image appears as a call out. A very nice effect. Below is an example. Click the image to see the effect.

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Playing with WordPress 2.5

I finally updated my WordPress install to 2.5 for this blog, and several of my school blogs. So far things are working well. I like the new interface. It is a lot lighter and cleaner. I also like the new Gallery feature for uploading images. An example of which you can see below.


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Remembering Dr. Kings' Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech

Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech
NPR has a nice roundup of information as we near the 40th anniversary of the death of Dr. King.

April 3, 1968, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his final public speech. In a crowded church in Memphis, Tenn., King spoke of the injustice felt by the city's sanitation workers, who were on strike protesting low pay and poor working conditions. But, speaking hours before his assassination, the civil rights leader went beyond that subject, touching on death and his own mortality...

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